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Symbolism

Ghosts, myths, visions: this is Symbolism in Italy. What the Magnani Rocca exhibition looks like.

Ghosts, myths, visions: this is Symbolism in Italy. What the Magnani Rocca exhibition looks like.

24/05/2026 Federico Giannini

Exhibition reviews Italian Symbolism Magnani-Rocca Foundation Modern Art Nineteenth century Symbolism Twentieth Century

It may provoke mild, amused unease to think that the Villa Borghese painted by Onorato Carlandi is pure invention, a pagan fantasy, the shredding of a dream. It does not exist, that Villa Borghese. There is not the great, sinister, shadowy…

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The true face of Giovanni Segantini, between nature and idea. What the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa looks like.

The true face of Giovanni Segantini, between nature and idea. What the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa looks like.

17/12/2025 Federico Giannini

Exhibition reviews Divisionism Modern Art Nineteenth century Segantini Museum Symbolism Twentieth Century

We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like…

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